Those Pesky Russians Russia Says It Can Weather $30 Oil for up to 10 Years Or $25 oil for 6 Tyler Durden 10 Mar 20 1234 24
100,000 Women, Children and Men Too Old to Fight Were Burned Alive in Six Hours of March 10, 1945 "You could smell...burning flesh in the airplane", "You could see flames...100 miles away" John Ismay 9 Mar 20 4199 58
Stay Classy MSM Coronavirus in China, Hurricane Katrina in the US — Who Handled It Better? Neither episode was as straightforward as you might think Peter Lee 9 Mar 20 1055 7
US-Taliban Deal Allows Trump to Brag About “Peace” Without Having to Achieve It A paper that lets Trump say he's withdrawing without having to actually order it John Chuckman 9 Mar 20 414 1
Debut of Anti-Interventionist Think Tank Is a Dud, Gives Bullhorn to Perfumed Prince Petraeus The Koch-Soros "Quincy Institute of Responsible Statecraft" proving to be as non-threatening as its name Gareth Porter 9 Mar 20 393 2
Russian Aggression The Putin Stimulus: $30 Oil Will Be Great for the Global Economy The world should be mailing thank-you letters to Moscow right about now Marko Marjanović 9 Mar 20 3861 30
Bonesaw Saudis MBS Ramps Up Purges, Arrests Ousted Crown Prince and King’s Only Surviving Full Brother for ‘Treason’ America's 52nd state Daniel Larison 9 Mar 20 1105 4
Those Pesky Russians Russia Breaks With OPEC to Go After US Shale, Brutal Price War for Market Share Unleashed "Russia has had enough of the shale guys living off OPEC plus" and "has been riled by recent US sanctions on Rosneft and Nord Stream 2" Anjli Raval 8 Mar 20 7878 28
Erdogan’s Ottoman Dreams Lie Broken in Syria At one point Erdogan looked close to establishing a belt of likeminded Islamist governments from Tunisia — across Libya, Egypt and Syria — right up to Turkey itself Marc Champion 8 Mar 20 1452 10
Our Benevolent Empire Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Trump-Aligned Pressure Group Pushes to Stop Medicine Sales to Iran Eli Clifton 8 Mar 20 1081 10
Dear America, Are You Really Going to Do This Joe Biden Thing? Good luck pairing a dementia victim vs Trump, you're going to need it Caitlin Johnstone 8 Mar 20 749 15
Our Benevolent Empire Too Bad Afghans Have to Live Under Foreign Military Occupation but at Least They Have Democracy Now, Right? Afghanistan’s two presidential front-runners plan rival swearing-in ceremonies on same day after another cartoonishly fraudulent election Jason Ditz 8 Mar 20 415 2
The Myth of Moderate Nuclear War Latest Strangelovian 'brilliance' you're supposed to believe: lower-use-threshold nukes make nuclear war *less* likely Brian Cloughley 8 Mar 20 628 13
Erdogan’s Caliph Dreams Died in Idlib and Were Buried in Moscow Erdogan's ambition to pose as the unofficial leader of the Muslim world has been shattered by the Syrian and Russian militiaries Marko Marjanović 8 Mar 20 3113 7
State Department’s Dream of Fighting Russia to the Last Turk Turns to Ashes in Moscow A greater Russian-Turkish clash would have been a godsend for the Empire Marko Marjanović 7 Mar 20 3160 18
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: House Bill Would Block Trump From Drawing Down in Africa Congress loves war; ignores Trump ramping up deployments and launching undeclared wars, but don't you dare think about a drawdown Kyle Anzalone 7 Mar 20 249 0
US Violates Its Just Signed Agreement With the Taliban Before the ink was dry Bernhard 6 Mar 20 886 15
Covid-19: The “Cures” Will Be Worse Than the Disease Never let a good crisis go to waste James Corbett 6 Mar 20 2694 24
War in Syria “Immediate Cease-Fire Along Existing Lines” — Erdogan Gives Up His Failed Offensive So ends the dream of throwing back the Syrian army, instead Turkey agrees to invite Russian troops into Idlib jihadistan Marko Marjanović 5 Mar 20 4361 32
Turkey Is Forcibly Transporting Migrants to the Greek Border, Pushing Them Across Has graduated from simply luring the migrants to the Greek border, and helping them reach (and breach) it Duvar 5 Mar 20 1181 1
Israeli Air Attacks on Syria Again Force Two Civilian Flights to Scramble for Safety When you're cruising on your way and Israel starts lobbing cruise missiles into Syria because it's Thursday RT 5 Mar 20 880 6
War in Syria Erdogan Meets Putin With a Weak Hand, Has Shown Himself Weak at Home and on the Front Has demonstrated he isn't actually able to dislodge the Syrian army as he had vowed to do Marko Marjanović 5 Mar 20 2301 4
China’s Manufacturing PMI Collapse Shows How Far Beijing Went to Combat Covid-19 Dealt itself unfathomable short-term economic damage to stay on the safe side Wolf Richter 5 Mar 20 1328 8
US Military Perplexed by Taliban Living Up to Letter of Agreement There is nothing in the US-Taliban deal saying they can't keep waging war on Kabul forces Bill Roggio 5 Mar 20 810 2
Belarus’ Lukashenko Teases Moscow, Holds a Joint Military Drill With NATO UK Just a tiny one for now, for the sanctioned "Outpost of Tyranny" Belsat 5 Mar 20 1245 6
Stay Classy MSM The Arithmetic of Covid-19 Death Rate Is Misleading, It’s Way Lower Than 2 Percent Majority of cases are without symptoms or mild, and are going under the radar Alan Reynolds 5 Mar 20 1694 6
2020 — The Year Jim Clyburn Handed Trump Another Term If Trump could pick the Democratic Party nominee he'd pick Biden Marko Marjanović 4 Mar 20 900 7
DNC Scrambles to Change Debate Threshold After Gabbard Qualifies "The establishment narrative warfare against Gabbard’s campaign dwarfs anything we’ve seen against Sanders" Caitlin Johnstone 4 Mar 20 1427 11
Russia Seeks to ‘Create Conditions so That Nobody Wants to Fight Us’ – Putin (VIDEO) Putin claims Russia is only 7th in military expenditure and claims that is more than enough Anti-Empire 4 Mar 20 1414 5
What About Netanyahu Trying to Interfere in the US Election? Netanyahu adresses AIPAC live from Israel to trash Sanders Michael Aria 4 Mar 20 1113 15